PM for polio eradication
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Monday directed that all available resources should be utilized for the anti-polio campaign on urgent basis so that the disease could be eradicated from the…
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National Polio immunization campaign starts
ISLAMABAD: A three-day polio immunization campaign to vaccinate children under the age of five years started on Monday in the federal capital and other cities of the country. According to…
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Over 138K children to be administered anti-polio drops
PESHAWAR: Deputy Commissioner and Commandant Malakand Levies Force Rehan Khattak Friday said that more than 138,000 children of under five-year-age would be administered anti-polio drops in the division during the…
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Vaccinating children against polio in Punjab
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that giving anti-polio vaccine to children under five years of age is a must for protecting their health. CM was addressing…
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Govt committed to eradicate polio from Balochistan: CM
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Jam Kamal Khan Friday said the provincial government was utilizing all available resources to prevent polio virus on emergency basis. In a message issued here…
Government launching new strategy, action plan to control polio disease: Sec.
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for National Health Services, Dr. Nausheen Hamid on Monday said that the government will implement a new strategy and an emergency action plan to prevent and control…
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Sub-national polio eradication drive starts in Balochistan, AJK
ISLAMABAD: The sub-national polio eradication campaign started on Monday in Balochistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) to vaccinate children under the age of five year. According to an official…
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Polio vaccination drive in parts of KP from 13th Aug
ISLAMABAD: A polio vaccination drive will be carried out in different cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province from August 13 to 16, a private news channel reported with reference to…
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Punjab CM seeks report over child’s death due to polio
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Wednesday sought a report from the Health Minister and Health Secretary over death of a child due to polio in Ravi Town…
COVID-19: PM Imran Khan talks to Bill Gates
ISLAMABAD: PM Imran Khan, while talking to Bill Gates (Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,) on telephone today, said that Pakistan was making all efforts to combat the…
PM’s Focal Person for Polio Eradication resigns
ISLAMABAD: Babar Bin Atta, Prime Minister Imran Khan's Focal Person for Polio Eradication has resigned today from his post. Taking to Twitter Babar Bin Atta held: "After a stint of…
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Pakistan to be polio free country soon: Baber Bin Atta
ISLAMABAD: Focal Person to Prime Minister Imran Khan on polio eradication Babar Bin Atta Monday has claimed that Pakistan would soon be declared as a polio-free country because of the…
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WHO finds presence of polio virus in samples collected in Karachi
KARACHI: Sewage samples collected from gutters of 11 sampling sites in the metropolis have confirmed prevalence of polio virus in Karachi. The World Health Organization (WHO) had collected samples in…
Nine day anti-polio campaign to begin in Karachi from Monday
ISLAMABAD: The nine-day anti-polio drive will commence at one hundred and six Union Councils of Karachi from Monday. Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shalwani said, a target of fifteen hundred and twenty…
550 policemen performing duties for polio teams in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: A total of 550 policemen were performing security duties for polio teams during the anti- polio drive in Islamabad, police source said. He said that Additional SP Hassam Bin…
Awareness campaigns for upcoming anti-polio drive
KARACHI: Commissioner Sukkur, Rafique Ahmed Buriro on Monday has asked the health department to effectively run awareness campaigns to educate parents to administer anti-polio drops to their children during every…
Polio-free Balochistan campaign begins
QUETTA: Balochistan health ministry has initiated a three-day polio-free campaign in four districts of the province, an official said today. “Nearly eight hundred thousand children up to five years of age…
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Fata remains ‘polio free’ since last year
PESHAWAR: It has been a year today since the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) reported the last case of polio. According to a statement issued by Fata Secretariat, not a single…
Polio eradication drive: Japan, UNICEF to vaccinate 3.3m children in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Japanese government, Japan International Cooperation Agency and the United Nations Children’s Fund have signed an agreement to vaccinate 3.3 million children between 4 to 23 months of age in…
3-day anti-polio drive kicks-off in KP, Balochistan
QUETTA: A five-day supplementary polio immunization drive commenced today (Monday) in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. According to Emergency Operations Center Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, more than over one million…
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Five-day anti-Polio drive kicks-off in various parts of the country
KARACHI: A five-day supplementary polio immunization drive commenced today (Monday) in various parts of the country, according to the health ministry. The Anti-polio campaign will be started in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally…
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Pakistan hopes to be removed from polio-endemic countries list by 2018
ISLAMABAD: National coordinator of the Emergency Operation Centre Pakistan, Rana Safdar said on Wednesday that the country is moving closer to eradicating polio and Pakistan hopes to be removed from polio-endemic countries…
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PM Nawaz, Imran Khan, and Nisar condemn Karachi Police attack
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has strongly condemned the deadly attack on the police party in Karachi’s Orangi Town on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by PM house shortly…
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Four-day Polio eradication campaign to begin in Karachi from Monday
KARACHI: Four-day polio eradication drive will commence in Karachi from Monday. During the campaign,2.2m children up to the age of five years will be administered with polio drops.